Exdrago Elements vs Cinnabar Coil

Exdrago Elements is an offline arcade roguelike. Your dragon walks on its own, one tile at a time, down through chambers it has never seen. You choose the turns, and you choose what it grows into. SIX ELEMENTS, ONE RING Ember, Frost, Storm, Stone, Venom, Arcane. Every limb you graft belongs to one of them, and so does every creature waiting in the dark. They answer each other in a circle. Ember melts Frost, Frost grounds Storm, Storm shatters Stone, Stone smothers Venom, Venom corrodes Arcane, Arcane snuffs Ember. Whichever element your coil leans on strikes 3 harder against the one it beats, and takes 1 more from the one that beats it. A mark on each creature shows where you stand, so you can walk around a fight you would lose. GROW THE COIL Reach the gate and it offers three limbs. Rime Talons add 3 strike and frost over on contact. An Ember Sac adds 4 and carries three points of vitality, so it burns out early. Basalt Plating adds 2 guard and nine points of scale. A Far Eye pushes the dark back one more tile. Seven links is the limit. After that, every graft replaces something you chose earlier. SWEEP OR RUN The gate takes you down whether you fight or not. Slip past every creature and you reach the next floor with your scales intact and your pockets empty. Kill the last one in a chamber and the sweep pays a bounty that climbs with depth. THE FORGE Embers outlive the run. Between descents you spend them on a tougher maw, a heavier strike, thicker hide, or a spare maw that relights once when the first one goes out. Rank up a single elemental limb and it arrives stronger the next time the gate offers it. SIGHT Your dragon sees one tile in every direction. The rest of the board is memory. Stack Far Eyes to push that boundary out, or walk into whatever the dark was holding. The exit lights up across the whole chamber once the last creature falls. Go down, and bring something back.

Nine chambers stacked inside a brass censer, a sleeping dragon at the crown, and one breath that decides everything. You drop essences into the fire bowl at the bottom and the heat carries them upward: resin crawls one chamber per tick, citrus rind climbs four, smoke settles wherever it lands. When the dragon inhales it tastes only the top three chambers at that exact instant, so the puzzle is traffic and timing rather than a recipe. Brass gates clamped to the coil make it worse. The ash gate cools whatever stops inside it, the kiln gate drives it faster, the jade choke turns away anything too loud, and the vent fissure simply takes the essence away from you. Twelve dragons sleep across twelve regions, from the kiln steps to the coil itself. Each one you wake leaves a sealed flacon in the vault and grants a boon: hold an essence through a redraw, undo a ruined tick, light the bowl twice in a single turn. Forty essences, eight families, no timers, no ads, nothing to buy.